Emmanuel Charpentier <charpent@bacbuc.dyndns.org> wrote: > > Don't you test your "final build" ? Of a *vital* package ?? If possible at > all, on a separate machine ??? Oh, my ... > > This kind of *imbecility* gives some *real* arguments to tenants of > commercial development. No need to FUD anybody here : this is *real* > mispractice. Expect a lot of flak from the commercial development side, and > don't fight it : it will have been *well* *earned*. Erm.. I think you're missing a couple of important points here: 1) Volunteer developer. No pay, no responsibility (kinda). A few slip-ups are allowed. 2) I think you have an unrealistically high opinion of the software development processes normally used by commercial organisations. 3) It's unstable! Get a grip! > [ To be fair, the speed with which the bug has been fixed and 0.72-27 made > available is also charcteristic of free software processes. ] And nearly impossible to acheive in a commercial environment. > I wonder how much people have been permanently locked out of their *only* > machines by this shortsightedness ... Has someone an idea on how to count > them ? Why bother? It's unstable! Stuff breaks, if people don't know how to recover from broken stuff, they shouldn't run unstable. -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ sam@topic.com.au | tSA Consulting | OpenPGP key ID: DE89C75C, available on key servers OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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